Rockies' Ryan McMahon walks off Dodgers in the 9th

The Rockies' DJ LeMahieu forces out the Dodgers' Justin Turner at second base on a double play in the third inning at Coors Field on Saturday in Denver. (Joe Mahoney / Getty Images)

DENVER — For the second consecutive night, Ryan McMahon won a key divisional game against the Dodgers with one swing of the bat.

McMahon, following his go-ahead, two-run home run in the seventh inning Friday, whacked a 391-foot dinger to right field off Los Angeles reliever JT Chargois that barely cleared the out-of-town scoreboard with two outs in the ninth inning Saturday night to give Colorado a dramatic, 3-2 comeback victory over Los Angeles.

Colorado's win, coupled with Arizona's loss at Cincinnati, puts the Rockies 1 ½ games behind the Dodgers and Diamondbacks in the division and avoided wasting another strong start by Kyle Freeland, who was tagged for a pair of early runs but, as usual, put the team in a position to win late in the ballgame.

Meanwhile, Freeland, who set a career high with 10 strikeouts, deployed the slider for eight of those K's and worked around a pair of walks while giving the Colorado offense ample time to wake up over seven innings.

Los Angeles' Walker Buehler, whose first career start at Coors Field was messy, a four-run, five-inning affair won by Colorado on June 2, was sharp from the first pitch Saturday, tossing seven shutout innings while striking out six.

The Rockies' first-inning pitching woes continued when the Dodgers used a Manny Machado double, followed by a Justin Turner triple, to take a 1-0 lead. That run pushed the team's ERA in the opening frame to 7.69, still easily the worst such mark in all of baseball.

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Until the ninth inning, Colorado couldn't capitalize on the windows Los Angeles presented.

First baseman Max Muncy's error on a DJ LeMahieu chopper in the sixth inning, followed by a Carlos Gonzalez single, threatened Buehler's gem. But Trevor Story proceeded to ground into a double play to end the inning, and the Rockies' bats were quiet from there.

Seunghwan Oh tossed a flawless eighth inning to keep Los Angeles at bay, and then Dodgers manager Dave Roberts turned to southpaw Caleb Ferguson out of the bullpen in the bottom of the frame to contain a Rockies offense laden with more bench depth than usual, with both David Dahl and Nolan Arenado (right shoulder soreness) available.

Ferguson struck out Dahl to begin the eighth inning before getting Charlie Blackmon and LeMahieu to pop up. Then, left-hander Scott Alexander came on in the ninth and yielded a one-out double to Story. Alexander was spelled by Chargois, who plunked Arenado and got Ian Desmond to ground into a fielder's choice before giving up the decisive bomb to McMahon.

Bryan Shaw was credited with the win for Colorado after his scoreless top half of the ninth.

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